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[written by T. Edison on top of page]
Orange NJ Feby 10 89 [Orange...89 underlined]
Don't get discouraged I am still working
at the problem. You overrate the affliction
Deafness has its compensations
Yours
Thomas A Edison
Mrs. Edison,
Dear Madame,
Being an entire stranger to you I suppose that
I ought to commence this with an apology for what must appear
an intrusion upon your attention. I do hereby make it and
trust to your woman's heart to accept it in the same spirit in
which it is offered, and to excuse me on the scor of sympathy
with human afflictions. I am deaf, or, rather, very hard of
hearing, and thus am entombed, so far as ordinary sounds are
concerned, especially those of the human voice. Years ago
your husband promised to come to the rescue of souls thus
imprisoned. I have waited very patiently for the fulfulment of
that promise, and the hope of it has been a great consolation.
But hope deferred maketh the heart sick, and, as year
after year has come and gone with out the relief, so
anxiously effected life has become very increasingly dreary
I have frequently written to Mr. Edison urging him to use his
God-given powers to help others less favored than himself;
hitherto he is as deaf to my petition as I am to all sound.
It is the shame of surgery that the deaf are so neglected. Every
other physical infirmity is helped or alleviated while deafness
remains as helpless as before the flood. Arms, legs, eyes
teeth, hair- every part of the human body is studied

[written by T. Edison on top of page]
Orange NJ Feby 10 89 [Orange...89 underlined]
Don't get discouraged I am still working
at the problem. You overrate the affliction
Deafness has its compensations
Yours
Thomas A Edison
Mrs. Edison,
Dear Madame,
Being an entire stranger to you I suppose that
I ought to commence this with an apology for what must appear
an intrusion upon your attention. I do hereby make it and
trust to your woman's heart to accept it in the same spirit in
which it is offered, and to excuse me on the scor of sympathy
with human afflictions. I am deaf, or, rather, very hard of
hearing, and thus am entombed, so far as ordinary sounds are
concerned, especially those of the human voice. Years ago
your husband promised to come to the rescue of souls thus
imprisoned. I have waited very patiently for the fulfulment of
that promise, and the hope of it has been a great consolation.
But hope deferred maketh the heart sick, and, as year
after year has come and gone with out the relief, so
anxiously effected life has become very increasingly dreary
I have frequently written to Mr. Edison urging him to use his
God-given powers to help others less favored than himself;
hitherto he is as deaf to my petition as I am to all sound.
It is the shame of surgery that the deaf are so neglected. Every
other physical infirmity is helped or alleviated while deafness
remains as helpless as before the flood. Arms, legs, eyes
teeth, hair- every part of the human body is studied